A 53-year-old Bath woman suffered multiple fractures after a car crashed into the back of her scooter along the A4 Bath Road in Keynsham.

Malcolm Mellersh, of Pound Street, Warminster, received six points on his licence after he admitted driving without due care and attention in the collision with a Vespa scooter driven by Jane Harris at around 6.10pm on December 7 last year.

Both vehicles were driving in the direction of Bath when the incident happened, which resulted in Miss Harris suffering fractures to her sternum, pelvis, eye socket and right knee cap.

Mr Mellersh, 67, told officers at the scene that he had not seen the scooter of Miss Harris until he was 15 yards behind and “had no reaction time at all”.